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Likud Knesset Member candidate Moshe Feiglin, indicted for trying to prostate himself on the Temple Mount, wants to pay each Palestinian Authority Arab $500,000 to leave Israel. He unveiled the proposal at a “Sovereignty” conference sponsored by the Women in Green and which is discussing ideas for annexing Jewish area in Judea and Samaria as part of Israel and removing it from military control, as Israel did with the Golan Heights and areas in Jerusalem that were under the Jordanian occupation before the Six-Day War in 1967. “The country pays 10% of its gross national product every year to maintain...

Dean campaign in debt By Sam Hemingway Free Press Staff Writer Despite raising a record $50.3 million, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's presidential campaign was in debt the day Dean withdrew from the race, campaign manager Roy Neel said Friday. "We do have a debt, but it's not unmanageable," Neel said. "It will be paid off pretty quickly. I don't know of a major campaign that does not end with a debt of some kind." Neel said he did not know how much the campaign was in debt, but said it will probably exceed $500,000 once expenses for shutting down...

Hundreds of thousands of people staged a peaceful demonstration against global capitalism in Barcelona on Saturday, underlining that their movement did not die with the September 11 attacks against the US and that their protests need not be marred by violence.Organisers said the turnout, which they put at more than 500,000, surpassed their expectations. The march was the largest staged in "Red Barcelona", a city that was collectivised by anarchists during the Spanish civil war and which retains strong leftwing sympathies.The protest would have been much larger were it not for the fact that dozens of buses carrying anti-globalisation protesters...